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    Empathic

     

     The EMPATHIC Research & Innovation project will research, innovate and validate new paradigms, laying the foundation for future generations of Personalised Virtual Coaches to help elderly people to live independently. The wellness coaching advice will promote healthy habits and behaviour, by challenging each user to transform their personal goals and needs into actions. The EMPATHIC Virtual Coach (EMPATHIC-VC) will engage the healthy-senior user to take care of potential chronic diseases, maintain a healthy diet, have adequate physical activity as well as encourage social engagement, thus contributing to the older adults’ ability to maintain a satisfying and independent lifestyle. The EMPATHIC-VC will motivate the user through a friendly virtual coach to reach pre-set benefits, whose achievement will be measured through project-defined metrics. Our ambition is to create a personal, friendly and familiar environment for the users, avoiding the threatening effects of unfamiliar new gadgets or an excessive focus on medical supervision. The project will look beyond the basic medical and physical needs of a person, to the link between body and emotional well-being. The EMPATHIC-VC will be capable of perceiving the emotional and social state of a person, in the learned context of the senior users’ expectations and requirements, and their personal history, and will respond adaptively to his/her needs.

    Project Website: http://www.empathic-project.eu

    Cordis Link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/769872

    Grant agreement: ID: 769872

    Status: Ongoing project

    Start date: 1 November 2017

    End date: 31 October 2020

    Funded under: H2020-EU.3.1.4.

    Overall EU contribution: € 3 999 800

    Coordinated by: UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA

    Partners:

    • OSATEK, Spain 
    • OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF, Norway 
    • E-SENIORS: INITIATION DES SENIORS AUX NTIC ASSOCIATION, France
    • TUNSTALL HEALTHCARE (UK) LIMITED, United Kingdom 
    • TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Israel 
    • INTELLIGENT VOICE LIMITED United Kingdom 
    • ACAPELA GROUP BABEL TECHNOLOGIES SA Belgium
    • INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM France 
    • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI Italy EU Contribution € 291782,50
    • UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA SPAIN

     

    Menhir

     

    Our mission
    Mental health is an essential component of health; however depression and anxiety are common disorders across the European Union. Many people may be described as “living with” a mental illness, and managing their own symptoms. However, they are often unsure of the thresholds for treatment, how to control their mental health, what are the best coping strategies or which resources are available to them.

    Conversational systems may facilitate watchful waiting and symptom monitoring, by initiating contact and symptom checking at various times of the day and night. The MENHIR project aims to research and develop conversational technologies to promote mental health and assist people with mental ill health (depression and anxiety) to manage their conditions.

    The participants will exchange and share their expertise toward this common objective, building a network for exchanging ideas and knowledge between Spain, Germany, Italy and United Kingdom, including academic, non-profit organizations and companies. This will lead to improved training and career prospects for the participants, specially for early-stage researchers.

    Objective
    MENHIR will pursue objective symptom monitoring and relapse prevention for people with mental illness. Symptom monitoring, whereby the patient assesses and records their moods, behaviour, and symptoms over time, can provide clinicians with additional, real time, more ecologically valid information to inform treatment strategies and empower the client to manage their own mental health symptoms.

    Benefits
    MENHIR would offer an additional option for people who use psychotropic medications, reduce costs to health services; engage people in the management of self-care and provide a more flexible immediate and sustained alternative to under pressure health care systems.

    The MENHIR chatbot

    • 24 - hour personalised social support
    • Coping strategies
    • Mental health education and signposting to online resources and local services
    • Facilitates symptom and mood management and the identification of patterns that are indicative of relapse and recurrence

    Project Website: https://menhir-project.eu

    Cordis Link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/823907

    Grant agreement ID: 823907

    Status: Ongoing project

    Start date: 1 February 2019

    End date: 31 January 2023

    Funded under: H2020-EU.1.3.3.

    Overall EU contribution: € 749 800

    Coordinated by: UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA Spain

    Partners:

    • ACTION MENTAL HEALTH United Kingdom
    • UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER United Kingdom
    • UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA Spain
    • INTELLIGENT VOICE LIMITED United Kingdom
    • UNIVERSITAET ULM Germany
    • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI Italy EU Contribution € 92 000
    • GLOBIT-GLOBALE INFORMATIONSTECHNIKGMBH Germany

     

     

    VALERE 

     

     

    Androids (AutoNomous DiscoveRy Of depressIve Disorder Signs)

     

     The project investigates the core features of human interactions to model cognitive and emotionalThe project investigates the core features of human interactions to model cognitive and emotionalprocesses: a critical brick in building technologies for sustainable and all-inclusive societies. The aim is todesign and implement autonomous systems and algorithms able to detect early signs of mood changesand depressions through analyses of interactional exchanges. The project will gather behavioural data(speech, handwriting, facial, vocal and gestural expressions) from healthy/depressed diagnosed subjectsdefining behavioural tasks able to detect changes in the healthy perception of social cues due todepressive disorders. Specific scenarios will be designed to assess individuals emphatic and socialcompetencies. The collected data will deepen the medical knowledge on behavioural features affectinghealthy/depressed interactional exchanges and will allow developing a multi-dimensional mathematicalmodel of communicative features assessing psychologically and quantitatively healthy/depressedrelationships. From this model, automated and cost-effective technological interventions will beimplemented, to be used in health care centres for the early detection of depressive disorders.

    Status: Ongoing project

    Start date: 11 December 2019

    End date: 10 December 2021

    Funded under: V:ALERE 2019, D.R. 906  4/10/2019, prot. n. 157264 del 17/10/2019

    Overall EU contribution: € 337500

    Participants:

    • Dipartimento di Psicologia
      • Anna Esposito
      • Olimpia Matarazzo
      • Terry Amorese
      • Betul Tolgay
      • Gennaro Cordasco
      • Alessandro Vinciarelli (external)
      • Marcos Faundez Zanuy (external)
      • Luca Bartoli (external)
    • Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica
      • Stefano Marrone
      • Bruno Carbonaro
      • Marco Menale
      • Simona Bernardi (external)

     

    Progetti Ex60%

     

    • “Le comunità virtuali e il conformismo: L’influenza sociale della rete sulla percezione di stati emotivi”. (Anno finanziario 2013) Responsabile scientifico Prof.sa Anna Esposito
    • "La propagazione dell'informazione nelle reti sociali". Ricerca di Ateneo 2014, Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli (Anno finanziario 2014) Responsabile scientifico Dott. Gennaro Cordasco
    • "La quantità di informazione emotiva trasmessa dai canali audio e video". Ricerca di Ateneo 2016 Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli. (Anno finanziario 2016)  Responsabile scientifico Dott. Gennaro Cordasco
    •  "La Categorizzazione delle Informazioni Digitali mediante l’ausilio di Diagrammi di Eulero". Ricerca di Ateneo 2017 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA “LUIGI VANVITELLI". (Anno finanziario 2017) Responsabile scientifico Dott. Gennaro Cordasco
    • Come gli adulti con più di 65 anni percepiscono la personalità di agenti virtuali: aspetti edonici e pragmatici”. (Anno finanziario 2018) Responsabile scientifico Prof.sa Anna Esposito
    • "L’Atteggiamento degli utenti anziani nei confronti degli agenti virtuali assistivi : il ruolo della voce e del genere. ". Ricerca di Ateneo 2019 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA “LUIGI VANVITELLI. (Anno finanziario 2019) Responsabile scientifico Dott. Gennaro Cordasco

     

    PON 

     

     

    SI-Robotics

     

    La proposta SI-ROBOTICS si pone lo scopo di ideare e sviluppare nuove soluzioni nell’ambito delle tecnologie robotiche assistive ICT, dimostrandosi capace di supportare le persone nello svolgimento di servizi di assistenza sanitaria, agendo con un comportamento socialmente accettabile.
    L’obiettivo scientifico della proposta SI-ROBOTICS è quello di ideare e implementare soluzioni tecnologiche, facilmente adattabili, per aiutare gli anziani nelle attività quotidiane e per valutare il progresso del loro declino fisico e cognitivo (fragilità, demenza, lieve deterioramento cognitivo). Questo consente di identificare specifiche sfide per la diagnosi precoce, la valutazione oggettiva, il controllo della terapia e la riabilitazione. Saranno quindi introdotti concetti e soluzioni innovative di robotica ICT in cui utenti, dispositivi IoT, robot sociali AI-powered e oggetti connessi al Cloud collaboreranno a creare una sorta di “agente cognitivo” per anticipare i bisogni dell’utente e fornire assistenza, monitoraggio e soluzioni di coaching.
    L’obiettivo tecnologico della proposta SI-ROBOTICS è quello di realizzare robot connessi in grado di assumere abilità e tratti sempre più “umani”, come percezione, adattamento, apprendimento, manipolazione e interazione. La caratteristica distintiva della proposta sarà l’implementazione di modelli comportamentali e di interazione avanzati, concepiti per creare una percezione positiva della cura al fine di incoraggiare gli anziani a partecipare al loro processo di cura.
    La proposta è concepita per dimostrare la fattibilità tecnica, l’accettabilità e la sostenibilità economica della soluzione SI-ROBOTICS nel contesto di case di cura per anziani e ambienti domestici, che prevedono la presenza di persone fragili, che richiedono un’attenzione ed un’interazione attenta e specifica, e di caregiver e medici, che sono spesso oberati e svolgono compiti impegnativi. L’ambizione della proposta sta nel fornire e valutare nuovi processi di assistenza per una cura continuativa effettuata attraverso una vasta gamma di servizi sanitari comprendendo diversi livelli e gradi di assistenza in ambito domestico e residenziale.
    I risultati attesi consistono nel rafforzare e promuovere lo sviluppo dell’innovazione, dell’automazione e della comunità robotica nel Sud Italia, favorendo così la nascita di potenziali start-up, non solo nel settore sanitario ma anche in altri campi legati alle tecnologie robotiche ICT come logistica, medicina e pulizie etc.

    Project Website:https://www.next2u-solutions.com/pon-si-robotics/

     

    Past Projects

     

    • May 2013 - 2016 “LangTERRA - Enhancing the Research Potential of ILSP/”Athena” R.C. in Language Technology in the European Research ERA”, www.langterra.eu, Duration 36 months, Role: Italian PI
    • Jul 2012 – Jul 2015: Psychological Status Monitoring by Computerised Analysis of Language phenomena (COALA). European Space Agency (ESA) approved project n. HSO-US 2012-108. In collaboration with: Laszlo Balazs l, Ehmann B, Laszlo J (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU), Vicsi K (Budapest Univ. Technology, HU), Gushin VI (Institute For Biomedical Problems, RU), Silberztein M (University of Franche-Comté, FR), Suedfeld P(University of British Columbia, CANADA), Pattyn N (Royal Military Academy, BL) Duration 36 months Role: EU Project Coordinator
    • Dec 01 2012 – Nov 30 2015 vAssist (AAL-2010-3-106) Voice Controlled Assistive Care and Communication Services for the Home, http://vassist.cure.at, Duration 36 months Role: Expert Research Professor
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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